PSYC 2600 Final: Final

• School: Carleton University
• Department: Psychology
• Course: PSYC 2600
• Professor: Lorena Ruci

Document Summary

Format: 75 mc + 5/6 sa (non cumulative) Content: chapters 12, 13, 14, 15, 16 & 18, plus lecture material. What is a cognition: general term referring to awareness and thinking as well as to specific mental acts, such as perceiving, interpreting, remembering, believing and anticipating. What can learn about personality about how people view the world? (know very well: we all perceive reality through our own lens (mental representation) Based on our sensory and perceptual systems: field dependence. Field dependence people see big picture more readily than details, more focused on surrounding context: field independence. Field independence people have the ability to focus on details despite the clutter of background information. What do we know about reducers and augmenters: underlying biological reason. People with low pain tolerance have a nervous system that amplifies or augments subjective impact of sensory input. People with high paint tolerance have a nervous system that dampens or reduces effects of sensory information.